NFL 2017

[Speaker to Animals]

Watching sports inspires people to take part in them. After the London Olympics, sports clubs registered a huge uptake in people wanting to take part. During Wimbleton and for weeks after you cannot find a free tennis court. Watching sports does exactly the opposite of what you claim.

Not here and especially not the fucking NFL, dude. It's like a fucking spiritual, physical, and psychological cancer.









Or did you think SNL's Superfans was made from whole-cloth??

How do you think the men on the pitch were inspired to play football? They watched others playing and thought to themselves ''I'd like to have a go at that''.
More sports at schools, colleges and on TV is a positive thing.

Go back and read what I posted:

Another way of looking at it.. Lately I have watched gymnastics and calisthenics competitions because I am trying to learn many of those skills. It works because it helps me visualize some distant goal and it motivates me to train. I think watching football all the time would do something similar -- assuming you actually belong to a local football league, train, and play games all the time.

I am talking about the vast majority of people who consume this entertainment all the time in lieu of actual athleticism. Sports entertainment is a way of short-circuiting a man's need for athleticism. It's like saying subconsciously that you fulfilled your need for sports, exercise, and competition by simply watching this game on the television, while eating your chips and drinking a six pack of beer. That's a fucking cancer.

I would rather see us facilitate quite a lot more football leagues for people to just join local teams and compete. I think people would get more out of it if they actually played the sport regularly, and in that case, I doubt it would become the kind of drug that it is for so many now.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yet another way of describing where I am getting at:

American fast food is also a fucking cancer. Food itself is necessary and good. But American culture managed to take something good and make it literally into a cancer-causing, fat-generating poison.

Our popular sports are much the same.


If you look at cycling in Europe, for example, most of the fans seem to own road bikes and cycle themselves. It's getting a little bit cancered-up by American culture, especially with the doping and the personality-building, but it's still mostly okay. I don't see a bunch of fat people living vicariously through some cycling team instead of cycling himself.

But in America, seriously go look at large crowds of football, basketball, and baseball fans.. Baseball and basketball are not so bad (yet) as football, but they aren't really like they were years ago when most fans still played the game in their local neighborhoods and in local teams.

Football in particular, at least in America, always seemed to have been meant as a spectator sport. It's Roman games.

[The Conservative]

Seriously, if you standard is my team didn't cheat in this one game, you should consider a new team. Second, the Pats got to the game under suspicious circumstances with the Patriots and Refs, heck one Ref even announced his retirement after he was connected to I think 3 unlikely Patriots late game wins that were impacted by the Refs calls.

Name one time they cheated in this Super Bowl.

Also, I am saying this game because this game is what mattered. Just like you and everyone else here like things to say on topic. So live by your mantras or STFU.

Hey, the Patriots only had ONE penalty in the entire game............. are you telling me the Patriots never held on the offensive line or committed any kind of pass interference ?

ONE Penalty the entire game................... are the Patriots just that good and clean ?

I already admitted that the Pats held. What I also said is the refs were also blind to a whole bunch of fouls. When it came to the important ones the refs passed the buck to NY. Which Goodell had full access too... Goodell has it in for Brady since day one this season. You are telling me that it wasn’t out of reason to think Goodell put pressure on them to let questionable calls to slide if it was against the Pats or to help the Eagles?

His distain for the Patriots is almost as blindedly open as several people on this forum.

[The Conservative]

Name one time they cheated in this Super Bowl.

Translation: My team really does cheat, but they didn't in this game and they didn't win. See how important it is for us to cheat?

Lulz.

Nope because the tired responses are well old. I’m tired of trying to defend something that has already been dealt with.

You guys keep on saying if someone does his time the person should get a clean slate or some BS like that.

So, live up to your mantras of just admit you are hacks

[Montegriffo]

Those watching sports with no intention of ever playing would just watch something else if there were no sports on TV. The inspiration to play after watching sports far outweighs the sedentary nature of watching for people who would only watch the X-factor or some other such shit if there were no sport on TV.

[SuburbanFarmer]

It's also the only unscripted content on tv. Literally, the only thing on the flash-box that ever happens, not completely pre-determined by the corporate masters.

[Fife]

Many of the fans watch the game telecasts to get life inspiration from the coaches also, guys.

There's something for everyone in the NFL.

[Montegriffo]

Yet another way of describing where I am getting at:

American fast food is also a fucking cancer. Food itself is necessary and good. But American culture managed to take something good and make it literally into a cancer-causing, fat-generating poison.

If a TV program showing how to eat healthily and providing recipes for good food makes a watcher feel hungry and they go out and buy a cheesebuger and fries should the program be removed for causing the obesity epedemic?

[Speaker to Animals]

Yet another way of describing where I am getting at:

American fast food is also a fucking cancer. Food itself is necessary and good. But American culture managed to take something good and make it literally into a cancer-causing, fat-generating poison.

If a TV program showing how to eat healthily and providing recipes for good food makes a watcher feel hungry and they go out and buy a cheesebuger and fries should the program be removed for causing the obesity epedemic?

That literally made no sense. I am not sure what you were trying to convey here.

I am comparing commercialized American sports to the worst of our fast food. It's poison.

The purpose of sports is self-improvement and fraternity. Televised sports entertainment does the opposite in the same way that fast food does the opposite of nourish you.

[Montegriffo]

Yet another way of describing where I am getting at:

American fast food is also a fucking cancer. Food itself is necessary and good. But American culture managed to take something good and make it literally into a cancer-causing, fat-generating poison.

If a TV program showing how to eat healthily and providing recipes for good food makes a watcher feel hungry and they go out and buy a cheesebuger and fries should the program be removed for causing the obesity epedemic?

That literally made no sense. I am not sure what you were trying to convey here.

I am comparing commercialized American sports to the worst of our fast food. It's poison.

The purpose of sports is self-improvement and fraternity. Televised sports entertainment does the opposite in the same way that fast food does the opposite of nourish you.

My point is that many of the watchers of a healthy food program will be inspired to start eating better. If some portion of the audience fails to be inspired by the message that is not the program's fault.
If you remove all inspirational sports programs from the air is that going to increase or decrease sports participation?